Posted on 11/14/2024 1:01:43 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
He didn’t just call it a ‘false flag’. It was reported that he said that nobody died and that the victims were child ‘crisis actors’.
It reminds one of the James O’Keefe situation.
His old outfit is nothing now.
Same will happen here.
Exactly what I thought. Not an “auction.”
It’s corruption to the hilt.
Money?
From what i've read, these people didn't even know who Alex Jones was until these lawyers contacted them and told them they needed to sue.
If I lost my child in a shooting and someone promoted the idea that it didn’t even happen, I’d sue, too.
What harm was done to the families who's child was lost? For a billion dollar punishment, you would have thought Alex Jones shot them himself.
And Alex Jones may very well have believed it at the time he said it. People tell me there are a lot of hinky things about the whole incident.
Rahm Emanuel. "Never let a crises go to waste."
I have read that they have no video or audio of him saying such a thing. Do you know of actual proof where he said it?
And the larger point, even if he is guilty, a billion dollars is an 8th amendment violation.
I think this civil suit was aided and abetted by somebody who got paid by prominent democrats.
The lawsuits were for defamation.
If you lost your child, and you became aware that someone with Jones’ platform was telling the world that you were lying about it, it never happened, would you need much inducement to sue?
I think I recall a time anything ‘Alex Jones’ here; and it was a good call.
Sorry; I meant that in the past, anything ‘Alex Jones’ was banned here.
(He also claimed that 9-11 was an ‘inside job’.)
He never said any of that.
If so, roll the tape.
Sold to the Onion
Why were links to his stuff banned on Free Republic for a long time?
The hangup with this thing is the degree of punishment. Had this been Oprah Winfrey or Rosie O'Donnell (who is still pushing the 911 truther nonsense) the family would have likely just accepted an apology for a mistake.
But this isn't about what was said, it is about who said it. Alex Jones is hated because of his politics. The same "injury" by anyone else (and i'm sure there are lots of other people who have repeated this nonsense) would not be punished to this degree.
And I will add, that any Jury, who gives a billion dollar award for something frivolous like this, should be sent to prison. Any judge that allows such a thing, should join that jury in prison.
We need accountability from the legal system for it's own behavior.
“It was reported that he said that nobody died and that the victims were child ‘crisis actors’.”
That’s what Jones was openly saying on his program. If he actually believed what he was saying he would have had an effective defense because ignorance isn’t a crime.
But his own texts and emails were entered into evidence, and they showed that he knew right from the start that the shootings were real and that the children were dead. But claiming otherwise made for good programming so he decided to run with that story.
A result of his callous indifference is that parents of the murdered children were subjected to harassment by people who believed that the massacre was all an act.
The penalty imposed by the court seems harsh, but he brought this on all by himself. A case of FAFO, conspiracy peddler division.
And in reality the onion bought it on credit. Just crazy.
on what grounds? Someone using their free speech to question the official narrative?
He said himself in court that it was “crazy” of him to claim that Sandy Hook was a hoax. He said that he eventually came to believe that it lacked credibility and tried to distance himself from it; and then he tried to tie himself to President Trump’s coattails by claiming that he was being attacked by ‘enemies of Trump’.
The guy has always struck me as an irresponsible and money-grubbing nut.
There is such a thing as defamation. Look it up.
There was very little real information regarding Sandy Hook. We still don’t know why.
so you can’t even ask if something really happened or not? Are we going to lock up moon landing deniers and people that questioned the vaccines and people that questioned the russia hoax? This is a very dangerous road to go down and it is flat out wrong and unconstitutional.
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